platyptera

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platyptera - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Platyptera \Pla*typ"te*ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? broad + ? a
     wing.] (Zool.)
     A division of Pseudoneuroptera including the species which
     have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or white-ants,
     and the stone flies (Perla).
     [1913 Webster]